Margaret Ngilan Dodd
Ngilan is an artist belonging to the Pitjantjatjara language and cultural group and lives in the remote community of Mimili, South Australia.
She has been creating beautiful baskets for many years and has formed a distinctive aesthetic of colourful stripes and a loose organic weaving style. She has pioneered the 'woven vessel' realm, developing her signature form which resembles the ancient Greek hydria. Ngilan dedicates herself to her woven art practice with immense passion and compulsion to make. A testimony to her enthusiasm for weaving was her request for a headtorch to allow her to continue making through the nights. A woman who (despite being confined to a wheelchair) has achieved so much through her hard work, artistic creativity and a unique passion for weaving. Her daughter Sheena Dodd is also a celebrated and skilful weaver.
Tjanpi Desert Weavers (Tjanpi meaning ‘wild grass’) is an award-winning, Indigenous governed and directed social enterprise of the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council (NPYWC). Tjanpi empowers over 400 women across a 350,000 square km area of the tri-state region of NT, SA and WA to earn an income and remain in their communities on Country.
She has been creating beautiful baskets for many years and has formed a distinctive aesthetic of colourful stripes and a loose organic weaving style. She has pioneered the 'woven vessel' realm, developing her signature form which resembles the ancient Greek hydria. Ngilan dedicates herself to her woven art practice with immense passion and compulsion to make. A testimony to her enthusiasm for weaving was her request for a headtorch to allow her to continue making through the nights. A woman who (despite being confined to a wheelchair) has achieved so much through her hard work, artistic creativity and a unique passion for weaving. Her daughter Sheena Dodd is also a celebrated and skilful weaver.
Tjanpi Desert Weavers (Tjanpi meaning ‘wild grass’) is an award-winning, Indigenous governed and directed social enterprise of the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council (NPYWC). Tjanpi empowers over 400 women across a 350,000 square km area of the tri-state region of NT, SA and WA to earn an income and remain in their communities on Country.
Margaret Ngilan Dodd
35 x 14 cm
$250